24 May 2008

Don't Forget Your Grain of Salt

A link from Pharyngula. PZ Meyers organizes a lot of poll crashing (scroll through his blog, you'll see a lot of them). This one is a site dedicated to the question "Do you believe in God?" Honestly, I don't see the point in crashing the poll. Polls by nature are fallible. Half of polls are biased in the wording of the question (i.e. "Do you believe God plays an active role in our lives?"). Every poll I've seen shows the U.S. as around 10% atheist, but this website shows it as 52%, largely thanks to PZ's cult-like following, I'm sure. I could care less if it says that 0.001% of the country is atheist. Anyone who gets their beliefs from a poll isn't smart enough to vote anyways. By the way, Canada is listed as 67% atheist. Now, I'm no fan of Canada (or Socialism in general), but high five, eh?

1 comment:

42towels said...

Right. Next you're gonna tell me t polls on IMDB don't represent the actual population opinion.